Intel P4LA 2.7 <Serial ATA installation>

P4LA User’s Manual Introduction

Serial ATA Installation 20

2.7 <Serial ATA installation>

P4LA has four Serial ATA II interfaces wi th RAID function, the transfer rate of the Serial ATA

II can be up to 300MB/s. Please go to http://www.serialata.org/ for more about Serial ATA

technology information. Based on Intel® ICH7R, it supports Intel® Matrix Storage

Technology with combination of RAID 0,1,5 and 10. The main features of RAID on ICH7R

are listed below:

1. Supports for up to RAID volumes on a single, two-hard drive RAID array.

2. Supports for two, two-hard drive RAID arrays on any of four Serial ATA ports.

3. Supports for Serial ATA ATAPI devices.

4. Supports for RAID spares and automatic rebuild.

5. Supports on RAID arrays, including NCQ and native hot plug.

For more information please visit Intel’s official website.

For more about the system setup for Serial ATA, please check the chapter of SATA

configuration.

S_ATA1

S_ATA4

S_ATA3

S_ATA2

(

Associate accessor

)

Contents

Main Page Packing List Index Chapter1 <Introduction> Chapter 2 <Hardware Setup> Chapter 3 <System Configuration> Chapter 4 <BIOS Setup> Appendix A <I/O Port Pin Assignment> Appedix B <System Resources> Appedix B <How to setting RS-422/485> Appedix C <Flash BIOS> Appendix D <Programming GPIOs> Appendix E <What Dog timer Setting > Contact Information Page Chapter1 <Introduction> 1.1 <Product Overview> Intel LGA775 processor Intel 945G and ICH7R chipset One Marvell E8053 1.2 <Product Specification> General Specification Page P4LA Users Manual Introduction Component Placement 10 1.3 <Component Placement> 1.4 <Block Diagram> ICH7R 1.5 <Mechanical Drawing > P4LA Users Manual Hardware Setup Connector Location 13 Chapter 2 <Hardware Setup> 2.1 <Connector Location> 2.2 <Jumper Reference> 2.3 <Connector Reference> 2.3.1 <Internal Connectors> 2.3.2 <External Connectors> 2.4 <CPU and Memory Setup> 2.4.1 <CPU installation> 2.4.2 <Memory installation> 2.5 <CMOS Setup> 2.6 <Enhanced IDE interface> 2.7 <Serial ATA installation> Page Page 2.10 <Audio Installation> Page 2.11 <Display Installation> 2.12 <USB Installation> Page 2.13 <Power and Fan Installation> Page 2.14 <GPIO interface> 2.15 <Serial Port> 2.16 <Switch and Indicator> 2.17 <Expansion Interface> Page Chapter 3 <System Configuration> 3.1 <SATA configuration> X X Page On-Chip Serial ATA mode: 3.2 <SATA RAID Configuration> Page Page Page Page 3.4 <Video Memory Setup> Page 3.5 <Display Properties Setting> Page Chapter 4 <BIOS Setup> Page Appendix A <I/O Port Pin Assignment> A.1 IDE Port 39 A.2 <Serial ATA Port> A.3 <Floppy Port> A.4 <IrDA Port> A.5 <Serial Port> A.6 <VGA Port> A.7 <LAN Port> A.8 <SMBus> A.9 <LPT Port > Appedix B <System Resources> Page B2.<Memory Address Map> Page Appedix B <How to setting RS-422/485> Appedix C <Flash BIOS> C.1 BIOS Auto Flash Tool C.2 Flash Method Appendix D <Programming GPIOs> Appendix E <What Dog timer Setting > Contact Information Taiwan Commate Computer Inc.